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by nfoz 9y ago
I dislike the "popup" UI metaphor, where some content obscures other content from view. I also dislike when passive action such as "hover" causes stuff to jump around the screen. I think these are distracting and confu
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by nfoz 9y ago
I suppose I shouldn't leave on a cliffhanger, even if it's off-topic. If you have a Dell XPS 13, try the following in any editor: 1. Type the letter "k". 2. At virtually the same time, type the letters "o"
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by nfoz 9y ago
I know I'm not normal about this, but I can't use a Linux/Windows laptop without physical mouse-buttons on the touchpad. This is actually the only reason I didn't buy a Librem13. Apple's touchpad is better than the
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by nfoz 9y ago
It won't matter because we'll all spend our time in the virtual (VR) world instead. Civilization's about to get a whoooole lot more sci-fi!
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by nfoz 9y ago
> Would you spend two years of your life creating something with the knowledge that it can be freely stolen and resold by other people the day you release it? That's the dream of the Free Software movement, n'est-ce pas? When y
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by nfoz 9y ago
That's a fantastic clarification, thanks for that!
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by nfoz 9y ago
Well first I was super intriguied by the example. But I agree with your conclusion, that statements should not also be expressions, so a = b = c shouldn't work (at least not the way we're used to, that the b = c is an assignment &
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by nfoz 9y ago
Thank you, that's much more clear. So RHEL is deprecating their python2 package i.e. declaring their intent to eventually remove it. For some reason "replaces X with Y" suggests to me that they swapped one for the other (e.g
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by nfoz 9y ago
They're two different languages. I don't see why python3 "replaces" python2 anymore than say ruby does. IMO they should have separate namespaces and invocation.
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by nfoz 9y ago
Paying for the service doesn't automatically mean you aren't the product.
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by nfoz 9y ago
But why is "suppress into inconsequence" the appropriate metric? Murder is illegal but isn't "suppressed into inconsequence" by the law.
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by nfoz 9y ago
Yeah I was pretty surprised when I found out that assignment and equality can be totally syntactically separate and nonambiguous with miminal language-design effort. Just get rid of the silly idea of allowing expressions as statements. Alt
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by nfoz 9y ago
Fun fact, R also has -> (assign to the RHS instead of LHS), and "super-assignment" <<- and ->>, and also can use = sometimes too (and I think has different semantics). Yay R.
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by nfoz 9y ago
Yes and I agree, but I think even that is a cultural/moral judgement (libertarians would disagree I think), and what contracts should fall into the "exploitative" category is definitely cultural.
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by nfoz 9y ago
"has never worked"? Sounds like you're setting a hard metric. I'm pretty sure that changing laws does have some influence on the social norms and culture around some of these items, and their level of consumption. The
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by nfoz 9y ago
I think the law will always encapsulate some idea of morality. You've already suggested some places where US law restricts contracts that might seem to be between consenting adults. It's a moral choice for the law to restrict y
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by nfoz 9y ago
Do people generally consider nanomsg to be a "failed experiment"? Is anyone using it for their projects? The author's tone makes it seem like I shouldn't use nanomsg. nanomsg in turn makes it seem like I shouldn't
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by nfoz 9y ago
This crafty term "political or issue ads". Is that a legal / enforceable term, or is this something that Facebook gets to decide? Whatever it is, we're going to see that "ads which influence the public for politica
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by nfoz 9y ago
It may be oversimplifying to say that they're concerned with a power block arising from Christian churches. They could be concerned with the cultural and viral ideas of the texts themselves. Religious texts beget mindsets, attitudes,
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by nfoz 9y ago
It sounds like text-to-speech narration is honestly your best bet, for walking-and-writing. I can't imagine much that will help with walking-and-coding because of the concentration required. I'll trip on stuff even without any i
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by nfoz 9y ago
Sounds like you'd be interested in this: https://www.tapwithus.com/ It's probably junk if not vapourware; at best maybe a stepping stone towards our VR-ified future. I ordered one just to check it out.... so we&#
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by nfoz 9y ago
I thought I loved the idea of a solid-chunk-of-memory-foam mattress. But now I've identified that it's causing me serious back/neck problems; maybe it just doesn't suit my body-type or something. I'm looking to re
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by nfoz 9y ago
I have a 4K 55" "dumb" TV. You typically need to look for the "Business" line of products to find them. http://www.lg.com/us/business/commercial-display/displays-tv... The downsides
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by nfoz 9y ago
This honestly really bothers me. We're encrypting everything, we have "Let's Encrypt", we have browsers telling users that their connections are "secure". Meanwhile your DNS lookups are public (which leaks what
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by nfoz 9y ago
Just to be clear, 0rtt is only for "revisits", and for revisits of static assets the client is likely to have the asset cached still. So the only benefit is if the "static" asset has changed, or the client's cache
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by nfoz 9y ago
Yes. And like so many other behaviours in the web-stack, I feel like I'm in a constant fight with my client software to please choose privacy over convenience. So it's worth being aware of where these tradeoffs exist. Especiall
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by nfoz 9y ago
From the spec: "When clients and servers share a PSK (either obtained externally or via a previous handshake), TLS 1.3 allows clients to send data on the first flight (“early data”). The client uses the PSK to authenticate the server a
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by nfoz 9y ago
The other thing I don't like about 0-RTT is that the client reveals that they've been to the server before, i.e. it removes a plausible case for anonymity. Just another implicit "cookie" that needs to be washed, I suppo
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by nfoz 9y ago
I think the real sentiment here is: good PKI is an unsolved (and perhaps unsolvable) problem.
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by nfoz 9y ago
Cortana, didn't mean to conflate it with Alexa -- more the product category as a whole and its (presumably) unintended consequences.

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